NEW DELHI: India's top counter-terrorism agency on Monday charged militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and its top leader, with perpetrating a deadly attack on an Indian air force base in January.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that all four gunmen who stormed the air base on January 2 were Pakistani nationals and that Maulana Masood Azhar, the top leader of JeM, was the mastermind behind the attack.
"All the terrorists are accused of waging war against India. This was a criminal conspiracy to attack our security infrastructure," said a senior official at the NIA in New Delhi.
The presentation of a charge-sheet to a trial court wraps up India's investigation into the 18-hour siege at the Pathankot air base in which seven Indian security personnel and the four assailants were killed.
Pakistans reaction is awaited on the issue. However, the country has dismissed on several occasion the Indian claims of its involvement in terrorism activities on the latters soil, declaring the claim an attempt to divert worlds attention from atrocities its forces are carrying out in the occupied Kashmir.
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